Child sexual abuse victims 'denied justice' after compensation scheme scrapped over cost

Those familiar with my work will know that I hold no loyalty to any political party when it comes to the campaign for a National Inquiry into the cover-up of the gang rape of children and securing justice for survivors.

My position has always been clear: if this is truly about the survivors, then each and every child betrayed by the authorities must be entitled to compensation.

Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn

Keir Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for failing to implement 2022 Jay review recommendations

Financial Times

We now know that such a compensation scheme could cost up to £10 billion. We also know that, despite their criticism of the previous Conservative government, Keir Starmer and his Pakistani rape gang-protecting Labour team have abandoned a key recommendation from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

Child sexual abuse victims ‘denied justice’ after compensation scheme scrapped over cost

The governments in Scotland and Northern Ireland have set up compensation schemes and paid hundreds of millions of pounds to victims of child sexual abuse - but ministers admit that a similar programme for the rest of the UK has been shelved.

SkyAlice Porter

A National Redress Scheme was one of IICSA’s 20 core recommendations. Yet a recent Home Office report reveals the government has scrapped this proposal -because of the cost.

Let’s be clear: in May 2023, the Conservative government promised to establish a redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse. Labour has now quietly binned that commitment.

Labour had already earlier ditched another IICSA recommendation urging the Government to increase the time limit for child sex abuse compensation applications, so that applicants would instead have seven years to apply from either the date of the offence or their 18th birthday.

This latest decision makes a mockery of Labour’s repeated claims, especially from their so-called “Minister for Safeguarding Girls”, Jess Phillips, who insists that their policy is shaped by listening to survivors. Are we really to believe that survivors of gang rape told her they don’t want compensation for their abuse - abuse enabled by the state’s complicity?

And while compensating British children for the torture they endured at the hands of Pakistani rape clans is considered unaffordable, Labour continues to send foreign aid to Pakistan - £133 million this year alone.

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